@Yutsano:
Well, the American right do have precedent for this. Remember when they brought Stephen Hawking’s long-term illness into the healthcare reform argument? That didn’t work out so great for them either.

Since Breitbart.com & Mattera are trying to memoryhole this thing, it’s tough to see what happened. This site has some quotes from the original article.

In an exclusive interview with Big Hollywood, Mattera said he was stunned by Bono’s responses to his questions: “I’ve always liked U2, so when I began researching my chapter in “Hollywood Hypocrites” about Bono, I was surprised to find what a tax-dodging hypocrite the guy is. Still, I wanted to give the guy a chance to tell his side of the story. But when Bono told me he has “no control” over what U2 does and said it’s not hypocritical to ask everyday Americans to pay more in taxes for foreign aid and debt relief while he and U2 perform financial gymnastics to pay less in taxes, I was stunned.”

The video at EBW works, much as I hate to give traffic to those assholes. I love how the impersonator strings him along as long as possible while not lying at all–literally no, he doesn’t have any control over any of that. :D

If you dare exit the boat go read the comments on this story over at the The Blaze. Aside from all the self-congratulatory remarks about “globalist swine” and “communism,” 99% of those Bozos fail to recognize the obvious impersonator.

I can hear the comments now: “Well, U2 makes so much money here they OUGHT to be paying American taxes whether they’re American citizens or not!”

Logically, since paying fewer/less taxes is one of wingnutteria’s Holy Grails, Mattera ought be congratulating the supposed Bono for his ingenuity in tax avoidance rather than jumping in his shit. But hey, when did logic ever enter into Breitbart World?

I’m of the opinion that you don’t even acknowledge the existence of whiny dickweasels like Mattera because attention is the only thing they got. Without attention they’re just the angry Young Republican kid down the street who’s desperate because he can’t get laid. But if he does choose to acknowledge this story, Bono ought to say something to the effect of, “I’ve scraped more interesting things off my shoe.”

Not only does it put this pathetic Breitbrat effort in its proper context, it has the added benefit of being true.

I’m a big U2 fan, but not much of a fan of their tax avoidance scheme that took their business to Holland. But I don’t see why conservatives think that is a big deal.

FWIW, U2 only seems liberal in America because American conservatives are incredibly stupid, heartless and partisan these days. Their politics are not quite so easily defined from an international perspective.

Can we say that Breitbart’s minion still hasn’t found what he’s looking for?

HI-larious. I don’t even need to see the video, because I can tell from the starting frame that it isn’t Bono. How fucking derp can you be? Oh, wait, it’s a Breitbrat. Never mind, that shit is infinite.

Shame on you, Betty Cracker. Shame! This person is calling himself Bono and is wearing glasses like Bono and sounds a little bit like Bono. So saying this isn’t an interview with Bono is clearly a lie. Indeed, I Declare it Lie of the Year and give it four pinnochios and a pants on fire on the lieometer, five finger wags and a whole page of tsk-tsks and tut tuts. Shame! Oh shame!

Ireland is bankrupt. Its the fault of the soshulist euro-nanny state. All workers should suffer by paying higher taxes for less in return from services. U2 have shirked their responsibility as Irish citizens by not paying their fair share of taxes. Hence, Bono is ebul.

Bono is a rock star, which means he is leftist. Case closed.

Why cant you people see the obvious connections? Like Soros and reeducation camps.

Ireland has become a tax haven for multi-national corporations with it’s 12.5% corporate tax rate. Why would Bono & the boyos support a government with those kind of tax rates. Surely all the wingnuts ‘smart’ enough to figure out that their insurance rates and tax payments are ‘unfairly inflated when they are ‘forced to pay for the birth control of sluts’ would know that U2’s taxes would be going almost directly into some multi-natonal’s CEO’s back pocket if they continued to operate the business out of Dublin?

This was planned at the highest levels. It is obvious this was a ratfucking operation run out of Chicagoland and the Rahmbo and Bill Ayers were behind this cruel attack on a brave young culture warrior like Mattera.

I think Mattera deserves a purple heart bandage for the flack he’s taken in this vile Obama hit.

These things don’t just happen. Look at what they did to Dear El Rushbo?

Mattera has been referred to as “DC’s Bad Boy Reporter,” and criticized in some quarters for his tactics.

Let me fix that:

Mattera has been referred to as “DC’s Bad Boy Reporter,” and criticized in some quarters for his tactics. Some of those tactics include trying to pass off interviews with impersonators as breaking news.

@Auldblackjack: See, all those children they talk about in the blurb at the end are the kids of those billionaires who’ve set up shop in Ireland who, without Bono’s tax money, won’t be able to afford their next jar of caviar and the spring break trip to St. Tropez.

Charles Johnson points out that not only did Mattera screw up royally in this case, but the Breitbart people still haven’t fixed the millions of dead links resulting from their recent website re-design. Ah, schadenfreude.